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KPMG gives businesses advice on cloud adoption
Three areas that need to be looked at to ensure safe cloud usage.
NIST issues guidelines for managing cloud security and privacy
‘Guidelines on Security and Privacy in Public Cloud Computing’ (NIST Special Publication 800-144).
Google to close Message Continuity service
Existing contracts will not be renewed for Microsoft Exchange business continuity service.
Twelve cloud predictions for 2012
Cloud computing trends.
Researchers looking to improve cloud security
Scientists at the Weizmann Institute and MIT are getting closer to the ability to remove the need to decrypt data to make it usable.
Hybrid cloud backup expected to be an emerging trend in 2012
Asigra Inc. has listed what it sees as the key 2012 market and technology trends in cloud backup.
SunGard offers CIOs cloud proof of concept survey
60 day trial for CIOs to experience resilience and flexibility of SunGard’s shared private cloud.
Results of cloud provider informal stress tests published
Only six of the 16 major cloud storage providers tested provided the minimum level of performance, stability, availability and scalability that organizations need to take advantage of the cloud for primary storage, data protection and disaster recovery.
European Commission vice-president warns businesses about cloud computing
‘Businesses will have to pay utmost attention to security of information and privacy by design.’
The growth of recovery-as-a-service
Gartner says 30 percent of midsize companies will use recovery-as-a-service by 2014.
Draft Cloud Computing Technology Roadmap: comments requested
NIST documents aim to support both public and private sector cloud usage.
Cloud-based business continuity strategies expected to increase in 2012
CA survey finds that over a third of organizations expect cloud computing to play an increasingly important role in their business continuity plans over the next year.
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How to get your board to approve your cloud plans
It seems that board-level executives are not as keen as their IT professionals on the adoption of cloud computing according to no less than three new reports.
Managing cloud risks
Mike Small provides a useful checklist of the principal information security related issues that organizations adopting cloud computing need to address and explains how COBIT can assist in cloud risk management.
The need for the introduction of a new layer of security to lock down public and private clouds
It is becoming apparent that a new security mechanism should be added to existing network layer protocols, such as IP, to provide for a more resilient, manageable and scalable trust environment. By Ben Maas, DCIG.
Cloud: overcoming the fear
A better understanding of cloud computing is needed to combat CFOs’ concerns over security and loss of control says Keith Tilley.
If at first you don’t succeed: fail, fail and fail again...
Jim Preen wonders if the best way to avoid failure is to fail constantly.
Unexpected storage challenges in cloud computing environments
If you are starting to look at building your own/private cloud, there are a few things you should know up front about storage as these issues will affect your planning. Eric Burgener explains.
Are cloud computing standards essential for assuring availability?
Justin Pirie takes a look at the ongoing debate around cloud standards.
Business continuity and public cloud computing
Jim Kennedy looks at the different types of public cloud computing and lists the questions that are required for business continuity due diligence.
SunGard Availability Services enhances highly available cloud backup offerings with Amazon Web Services partnership
SunGard Availability Services has announced that it will provide highly available cloud backup through Amazon’s Direct Connect services to both Amazon Web Services and SunGard cloud customers during the course of 2012.
Zerto introduces Virtual Replication 2.0
Claimed to be the first Cloud business continuity and disaster recovery platform built for private, hybrid and public Clouds.
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